Peter Maughan: The Batch Magna Caper (The Batch Magna Chronicles) [2019] paperback ZIRIS and the manifold bonds of

and the manifold bonds of love

With her marriage prospects ruined in the wake of her father's financial decline

sacrosanct coffee-and-biscuit breaks

Respectable facades are peeled away as the four stories wind tighter and tighter together

Grimy and heartbreaking in equal measure' - WILL CARVER

Peter Maughan: The Batch Magna Caper (The Batch Magna Chronicles) [2019] paperback ZIRIS and the manifold bonds ofWelcome to Batch Magna, a place where anything might happen. And often does A hapless gang of crooks, led by pawnbroker Harold Sneed, have managed pull off 'the big one': a wages snatch at a factory in Shrewsbury. Two gang members take the money back to Birmingham by train, changing at a station almost on the doorstep of Sir Humphrey of Batch Hall. It's there that things start to unravel. The money goes missing. Misunderstanding follows